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Balint is a PhD candidate in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, with expertise on East Asian international history during the interwar period. He studied for his undergraduate degree at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest and the University of Bristol, and holds an MSc in Theory and History of International Relations from the LSE.
Balint’s research focuses on the history of modern China, Sino-foreign relations, the international history of East Asia, and Anglo-Soviet relations. His current project examines the international history of the Chinese Revolution in the 1920s, and how the antagonism between Britain and the Soviet Union during the decade shaped the politics of revolutionary China and the region more broadly.
Provisional thesis title: ‘From Red Scare to War Scare: Britain, Soviet Russia and the Chinese Revolution, 1919-1927’
Supervisor: Professor Vladislav Zubok, Head of the Cold War Studies programme.
Research Cluster: Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War
Expertise: Modern East Asian History, Modern China, Sino-foreign relations, Anglo-Soviet relations, Soviet Union, International Communism, Cold War